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09/05/2010 11:03 AM

Bronx-Born Comic Robert Schimmel Dead At 60

By: NY1 News

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Bronx-born stand up comedian Robert Schimmel has died.

Schimmel's spokesman says the comic died Friday night in a Phoenix hospital from injuries he suffered in a car accident on August 26.

Schimmel was a passenger in a car being driven by his 19-year-old daughter, who swerved to avoid another car, causing their vehicle to roll to the side of the freeway.

The comic was a frequent guest on "The Howard Stern Show," and wrote a memoir about his battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Robert Schimmel was 60 years old.